OREANDA-NEWS. Four years ago, an autonomous non-commercial organization "Agency of strategic initiatives on promoting new projects" (hereinafter - the Agency) launched a national entrepreneurial initiative designed to improve conditions for doing business in the country. For the first time in Russia’s recent history entrepreneurs were working on "road maps" (action plans to improve the business climate of the Russian Federation) together with the authorities and the expert community.

Within the National entrepreneurial initiative 11 "road maps" were developed and approved by the Government of the Russian Federation, which include specific regulations created for ease of doing business in our country. Innovations touched important business areas, including the acceleration of procedures and reduction of the cost of connection to the grid, registration of legal entities and property rights, construction, customs regulation, access to purchases of state-owned companies, etc.

To assess the effectiveness of the implementation of measures of the "road maps" the Agency for Strategic Initiatives is conducting the All-Russian online survey to assess the business environment in Russia.

Are laws adopted being effectively implemented? Is the work of governments at the federal and regional levels successful to reduce the number and cost of administrative procedures? Only an entrepreneur, who every day in his work faces administrative barriers, can appreciate how much easier and simpler doing business has become. The Agency invites entrepreneurs to participate in the analysis of the effectiveness of measures taken to improve the investment climate.